Entropic Mystery
(Published on 26. March 2024, 14:33 by sujoyku)
- Normal sudoku rules apply.
- Killer cages: Digits in a cage do not repeat and sum to the clue in the top left.
- Colouring and "Ambiguous Entropy" lines: Colour the grid with three different colours (for example red, green and yellow) such that the following conditions are met.
1) Each digit always appears in cells of the same colour. (For example, if a 1 is in a red cell, all 1s in the grid have to be in red cells.)
2) Orthogonally adjacent digits always have different colours.
3) Each killer cage contains one digit of each colour.
4) "Ambiguous Entropy" lines: Three consecutive digits on an orange line always have one of each colour.
Here you can solve the puzzle online:
Solution code: Column 9 from top to bottom (9 digits in total)
Comments
on 30. March 2024, 13:48 by TheDrunkBaby
It was an amazing puzzle. It took me 1h30, but managed to do it.
The way it works is incredible. Nice one!
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Congratulations on the solve and thank you for the kind comment, TheDrunkBaby! I am glad that you enjoyed the solve.
Kind regards, sujoyku
on 29. March 2024, 12:48 by lmdemasi
Great puzzle, very fun to solve.
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Thank you for the comment, lmdemasi! I am glad that you liked the puzzle and had a fun solve.
Kind regards, sujoyku
on 28. March 2024, 00:22 by LeaVulpina
Once I properly grokked how the mechanic actually worked, this was an absolute joy from start to finish. Beautifully smooth!
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Thank you for your kind comment, LeaVulpina! I am glad that you had a joyful solve.
Kind regards, sujoyku
on 27. March 2024, 02:25 by ryanprobably
Fun one!
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Thank you for commenting, ryanprobably! I am glad you had a fun solve.
Kind regards, sujoyku
on 26. March 2024, 23:37 by danmeehan91324
Fairly easy to color. More challenging to find the digits belonging to the 3 colors. Thanks!
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Thank you for the comment, danmeehan91324! I am glad that you liked the puzzle and, with regard to difficulty, I can only agree with your statement.
Kind regards, sujoyku
on 26. March 2024, 21:34 by avishai
Thank you! Very fun and challenging - the logic was always there, even if it took some time to find
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Thank you for your comment, avishai! I am glad that you found the puzzle to be an enjoyable challenge.
Kind regards, sujoyku
on 26. March 2024, 19:52 by mihel111
Very nice puzzle. 3* seems fair to me with the second part a bit harder.
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Thank you for commenting, mihel111! I am glad that you enjoyed the puzzle. It seems that solver's opinion settles on 3 stars which is completely fine by me.
Kind regards, sujoyku
on 26. March 2024, 16:13 by Snookerfan
Very nice! I found it difficult to find the digits in the three groups, so I gave it a hard rating. Thank you
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Thank you for your comment, Snookerfan! I am glad that you enjoyed the puzzle. Concerning the difficulty rating: As I have mentioned, the solve has phases of quite different difficulty levels. Compared to the colouring, the "Finding the digits"-phase is much more difficult. So I can understand your decision to rate it as hard.
Kind regards, sujoyku
on 26. March 2024, 15:42 by CaptZebraCakes
Very nice puzzle as always!
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Thanks again for the testing and thank you for commenting, CaptZebraCakes! I am glad that you liked the puzzle.
Kind regards, sujoyku
